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The Museum’s Collections document the fate of Holocaust victims, survivors, rescuers, liberators, and others through artifacts, documents, photos, films, books, personal stories, and more. Search below to view digital records and find material that you can access at our library and at the Shapell Center.

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… Jewish part of this transport. Supposedly, it was a transport of 7,000 from all kinds in the occupied Poland. (Inaudible). So they put us in. We are…

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… Hanna. I was born in Warsaw, Poland. Warsaw, before the war, still is, the capital of Poland, and used to be called the little Paris. It was a beautiful…

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… kicked me, you know, without reason, you know, and this is where I realize that the Poland is in war, that we have been occupied, that that things are not…

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… prisoners who were not full Jews. 4.24 Jewish kapos, incidents of brutality – their fate after the war. 4.30 Describes faking the age on ID’s of children…

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… Poland. 2:10 Marie had four sisters and two brothers. She was the second oldest. 3:23 The family lived in a mixed neighborhood. Marie had Jewish and non…

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… would say, November of 38 to the beginning of the war, which was September 1939. (Sigh) Now, looking back on all you experienced, how strongly do you feel…

Learn about over 1,000 camps and ghettos in Volume I and II of this encyclopedia, which are available as a free PDF download. This reference provides text, photographs, charts, maps, and extensive indexes.